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HSL supplies Chris Brown

HSL supplies Chris Brown
HSL supplies Chris Brown

HSL supplied lighting, rigging and a Kinesys automation system for the European leg of Chris Brown’s ‘One Hell of a Nite’ tour, working for production designer and manager Tom E. Marzullo from Out Of Our Minds Creative Services, LLC.

 

HSL project managers John Slevin and Jordan Hanson co-ordinated everything for the Blackburn UK based rental company and ensured that the production design - created collectively by Tom E with input from Christie Lites’ Robert Roth and Robert Achlimbari from All Access - was supplied with all the lighting, rigging and automation elements it needed.

 

The tour’s technical director Brian Spett who ran video content for the show and lighting director Charles Ford (also the lighting programmer/operator) additionally had their input, while HSL supplied a crew chiefed by Simon “Piggy” Lynch. This design was the third iteration of the original tour concept that started in 2015, however structurally it was quite different to anything that had been done before and also included a lot of new video content.

 

The stage design was based around four onstage sections of 8 and 9 mm LED video screen, a multi-level stage deck and several lighting trusses overhead and running down the sides of the space. HSL supplied all the necessary trussing for lighting, and rigging for lighting and video which included over 100 motors. The production riggers were Tom Cusimano and Billy Daves Jnr.

 

Lighting was rigged on eight overhead trusses and two moving pods. The pods each measured 3 x 3 metres, one downstage above the B-stage and one mid-stage, both populated with a 6 x 6 grid of Elation Sixpar 200s purchased specially by HSL for the tour and 16 x Clay Paky Sharpys around the perimeter of each pod. These both moved in and out at different points in the show.

 

Martin Vipers were positioned on the downstage truss used for key lighting on Chris Brown and the dancers and for aerial effects. Other spot and beam moving lights on the rig included Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpys, with 68 Sharpys in the show, including 32 framing the pods. Six Mythos were positioned on the floor.

 

Forty-six Robe LEDWash 1200s were dotted around on the various over-stage and side trusses and these formed the base stage and set washes for show and key lighting for the dancers and Chris Brown himself. Brown had made a decision at the start of the tour not to use any follow spots. Sixteen Atomic strobes were scattered around in the air on the mid and upstage trusses and 24 x Martin MAC 2K XBs held their own on the upstage truss. The lighting count was completed with 16 x 4-lite Moles.

 

Brian Spett triggered the D3 4x4 Pro media servers running the playback video from a GrandMA2 full size console. Charles Ford operated the lighting using another GrandMA2 light. A third GrandMA2 full size was provided by HSL as an onstage technical desk for the crew. Both lighting and video content was run by a combination of timecode from the ProTools rig and manual operation.

 

Joining Simon “Piggy” Lynch on the HSL crew was Simon Anderson on dimmers and technician Dan Cloake. Ian Tucker from Christie Lights worked on the touring crew, and Bobby Braccia from the production worked with HSL in Blackburn on prepping the rig ahead of the European production rehearsals at LH2. Charles Ford originally became involved in the Chris Brown touring production as LD for Trey Songz for the co-headline leg with him and Chris Brown in 2015, continuing with Chris Brown’s own production for this third ‘One Hell of a Nite’ section. Lighting director and programmer for the first leg earlier in 2015 was Bryan Hartley.

 

Video content was created by Possible Productions and LPX Digital, with animations by Jaime Lopez for LPX Digital. The 5-camera IMAG mix was directed by Richard Parkin with video hardware co-ordinated by US-based BTV Touring Video. Sound was supplied by Eighth Day, and Strictly FX delivered the pyro with trucking by Transam.

 

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